Archive for November, 2006

A painful administrative lession

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Well, I learned an important administration lession today.

DON’T MESS WITH DATABASE GUI WITHOUT CAREFULY READING THE INSTRUCTIONS!

The “guilty” GIU in my sad story is PhpMyAdmin. To say it clear PhpMyAdmin it is an excelent piece of software especialy for servers which you don’t have shell access. I used it a lot in my “early” days, when I used servers administered by others.

But lately I managed to upgrade my administrative position and started to administer the servers by myself. With this upgrade came shell access and I immerged myself in the magic world of comand line.

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How to enable cron?

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Well, some time ago my users started to complain that Moodle is not mailing forum posts and other notifications to their students. This used to work as it should, but one day it just stopped to work. Looking into things I found out that there is something wrong with cron.

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